AIM- To see if reinstating the context of an event will affect the accuracy of witnesses accounts.
METHOD- Participants were shown police training film of a violent crime. Two days later they were interviewd about what they had seen. For half of the participants, the context of the events was recreated during the interview. For the other half of the participants, he contect of the events was recreated druing the interview. For the other half of the participants, standard police interview techniques were used.
RESULTS- The participants who had the context recreated recalled more accurate facts about the violent crime than the other participants.
CONCLUSION- Recreating context during interviews will increase the accuarcy of recall. This method is known as the cognitive interview.
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